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When writing the body of your document, you will use the Markdown format.
Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. - Markdown Guide
When you render your Quarto document, Quarto converts the Markdown-formatted text into HTML, LaTeX, etc., depending on the output format you chose.
You can familiarize yourself with Markdown in a couple of minutes using the following link: https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/.
| Markdown Syntax | Output |
|---|---|
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italics and bold |
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superscript2 / subscript2 |
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verbatim code |
| Markdown Syntax | Output |
|---|---|
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Header 1 |
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Header 2 |
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Header 3 |
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Header 4 |
You can embed named hyperlinks
Simply a direct url like https://quarto.org/
Links to other places in the document.
| Right | Left | Default | Center |
|------:|:-----|---------|:------:|
| 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 123 | 123 | 123 | 123 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Right | Left | Default | Center |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 123 | 123 | 123 | 123 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Go to the Markdown Syntax chapter in the workshop book and refer to the text provided in the Exercise section.
Copy the text into your Quarto document, like an Introduction of sorts, and reformat it with Markdown Syntax
Render the document to HTML.
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Now that we know how to write in Markdown and run analyses in code chunks, let’s learn about referencing using BibTex keys!
A typical BibTex key might look like the following:
@article{nash51,
author = "Nash, John",
title = "Non-cooperative Games",
journal = "Annals of Mathematics",
year = 1951,
volume = "54",
number = "2",
pages = "286--295"
}
We will work with with bibliographies in the form of .bib files. .bib stands for BibTeX Bibliographical Database. They are text files which contain a list of references in the form of BibTex keys.
Here is an example of another BibTex key for a reference used in this workshop:
@misc{RMarkdownWritingReproducible,
title = {{RMarkdown} for writing reproducible scientific papers},
url = {https://libscie.github.io/rmarkdown-workshop/handout.html},
urldate = {2023-04-18},
file = {RMarkdown for writing reproducible scientific papers:C\:\\Users\\Moope001\\Zotero\\storage\\SJITSZZI\\handout.html:text/html},
}
In practice, your .bib file should be updated along the way to include the BibTex keys for all your references. You can cite a specific reference using the the @ character with the key/identifier in the first line of the entry.
For the previously mentioned examples, it would be:
In-Text Citations: @nash51 OR @RMarkdownWritingReproducible
Bracketed Citations: [@nash51] OR [@nash51, @RMarkdownWritingReproducible]
More information can be found at: https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/footnotes-and-citations.html
Go to the Referencing chapter in the workshop book and refer to the instructions in the Exercise section.
You will go through the workflow of creating a .bib file that will be automatically updated by Zotero and integrating it with your Quarto document.
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